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Symphonie du Marais celebrates its 25th year of anniversary in 2012 while Hugo Reyne celebrates 10 yearsas artistic directorat the “festival Musiques à la Chabotterie“. In the most recent newsletter (No.32 Sept-Dec 2011) are found these months list of concerts:

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“Alison Crum is one of the best known British exponents of the viol. As teacher, performer, and moving-spirit behind several well-known groups, she travels all over the world giving recitals and lectures, and teaching on summer schools and workshops.

Not yet published - available from February 2012

Edited by: Kate Flint, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Hardback Series: The New Cambridge History of English Literature
ISBN: 9780521846257

“This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts.

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“In 1985, the Ricercar Consort made their first tour with J.S. Bach’s« Musicalisches Opfer », and is rapidly internationally known for it’s interpretation of cantatas and instrumental music of the German Baroque ; numerous concerts are given with famous artists like Henri Ledroit, Max van Egmond and James Bowman.

“You may remember “Nannerl” vaguely as Mozart’s older sister. Even as Rosencrantz and Guildensternremained minor figures in Hamlet until Tom Stoppard immortalized them, Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (1751–¬1829) has been waiting for centuries to emerge from the shadow of Amadeus. The time is here.

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“The aim of the Viola da gamba-föreningen is to build and sustain a network of people interested in the viola da gamba and the music written for it. Amongst other things, the society wants to help organise playing opportunities, promote new music for the viol, provide information about concerts and courses, and act as a forum at which viol topics can be discussed.

As Linn comes to the end of its time as Gramophone's 'Label of the Year' we are proud to announce that three of the recordings released within the last twelve months have been chosen as Finalists for a 2011 Gramophone Award.

The Clarion Music Society is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 season, featuring the Clarion Orchestra, the Clarion Choir, and outstanding soloists. This is Clarion’s sixth full season under the direction of Artistic Director Steven Fox.

Harmonia Early Music recently challenged the community to help it raise funds for its operation.“We don't mean to beg, but we need your support to continue this online service. Help us reach a goal of $1000 by Labor Day. “

“After its inauguration five years ago and due to its great success with students, the Aula de Música Antigua (Early Music Academy) begins its fifth edition this 2011-2012, with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year courses being taught simultaneously, covering up the complete training.

“In contrast to today's music industry, whose principal products are recorded songs sold to customers round the world, the music trade in Georgian England was based upon London firms that published and sold printed music and manufactured and sold instruments on which this music could be played. The destruction of business records and other primary sources has hampered investigation of this trade, but recent research into legal proceedings, apprenticeship registers, surviving correspondence and other archived documentation has enabled aspects of its workings to be reconstructed.

“Explore our garden, inspired by herbal references in Shakespeare's plays and also incorporating plants popular in his time, including lavender, creeping thyme, and English ivy; a knot garden; and Shakespearean statues by American sculptor Greg Wyatt. Folger docents offer insights into plantings, Elizabethan customs, and more.

A Gripping Account of One of the Great Forgotten Wars of History

ISBN: 9780195395235
Hardback, May 2011, 304 pp.
List Price: $27.95

“Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire—stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent—and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women, such as Alexander’s mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions. …

“Intended to reveal the talents of tomorrow, the competition is opened to the major vocal artists of any nationalities and any tessitura's, it rewards the best vocal interpretations the works of which are inevitably drawn from the directory of baroque period.“

“John Playford (1623–1686) is probably best known today as publisher of The English Dancing Master (1651) which contains unharmonized melodies and instructions for the steps to several English country dances.

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